Selected: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, OBSERVATORY
Name: | JOHNSTON, FRANCIS |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, OBSERVATORY |
Date: | 1788-89 |
Nature: | New limestone building, inscr. 'The Heavens declare the Glory of God'. For Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh. |
Refs: |
James Stuart, Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh (2nd edition, 1900), ?; 'A letter from Francis Johnston', BIGS 6 (no. 1), Jan-Mar 1963, 1; APSA, A, 98-99; R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992), 85-88; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 124-5. |
Name: | MURRAY, WILLIAM [1] |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, OBSERVATORY |
Date: | 1835 |
Nature: | 4-bay link between main building and kitchen block. |
Refs: |
Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 125 |
Name: | BELL, G.P. & R.H. |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, OBSERVATORY |
Date: | 1968 |
Nature: | Planetarium. (Mulligan gives date of 1965-67.) |
Refs: |
Obituary of G.P.Bell in RSUA Yearbook 1983, 20; R. McKinstry, R. Oram, R. Weatherup, P. Wilson, The Buildings of Armagh (UAHS, 1992), 88; illus. in Kevin John Cartin, 'The work of George Philip Bell', submitted to Queen's University of Belfast as part of the examination in Architecture, January 1986, 74; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 128. |